Video of kids reacting to rotary phones

[bonquiqui]

mentalfloss.com/article/55380/adorably-perplexed-kids-react-rotary-phones

This totally made me lol and feel old

[CurlyQ284]

My mom works in the front office at an elementary school. She said kids have trouble using a regular phone. She has to help them hang it up after they call their parents. I guess there are a lot of cell phone only houses without a land line.

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That was adorable! I am always surprised at how articulate little kids can be.

[spitforspat]

Lol. This is akin to kids using a film (vs digital) camera.

[revolution]

That's funny.

My DD was like "WTF is that" when we brought an old rotary phone into the house and hung it on the wall.

[sake]

haha them trying to text on it was hysterical. as was their reaction to the realization that in "olden days" you had to be AT HOME and your friend also had to be AT HOME if you wanted to call them! 

[dottyblue]

I am cracking up at the 5 year old "I wasn't born in the 40s, so I have no idea what you are talking about" LOLOLOL

My MIL bought a toy rotary phone (the FP one) for her house. DS really didn't care about it and just kind of tilted his head at me when I put the handset to my head. Hee.

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We still use a rotary phone in our home. It's a Bakerlite from 1949 and still works on our landline. My kids love dialing on it lol

[bonquiqui]

Mar 7, 2014 16:16:29 GMT -5 dottyblue said:

I am cracking up at the 5 year old "I wasn't born in the 40s, so I have no idea what you are talking about" LOLOLOL

My MIL bought a toy rotary phone (the FP one) for her house. DS really didn't care about it and just kind of tilted his head at me when I put the handset to my head. Hee.

I think this was my favorite lol